So are we all the eloquent wannabe intellectuals that we portray online, or something more (or less!)? We may never find out. Nevertheless, we can still provide some basic info to satisfy each others' curiosities.

Here's what I'm looking for:

Age:
Location:
Occupation:
Mini-bio:

All fields are required. If any are omitted, you will die tomorrow. I'll post my entry along with the rest, if this topic gets to the front page.

Age: 22
Location: Earlville, IL
Occupation: Printer
Mini-bio: I live in the sticks, raise chickens, have lots of dogs, and spend the majority of my life fencing the boundries of my (and others') property.

Currently, my gaming time is being spent alternating between Sims 2 and Fable with my wife. Whilst I'm on the xbox with Fable, she's raising our SimFamily on the PC, then we'll switch off and I'll start corrupting our child whilst she runs around kicking chickens on the xbox.

*Sims 2 is a lot like Sims 1 at first, but don't be put off by that. With just a little playtime, you start to uncover all of the neat new little things they've added that make it fun.

*Fable is a lot more structured than I thought it would be, but it's still a great amount of fun, and it keeps getting better.

Age: 31
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Occupation: High school English teacher
Mini-bio: I like to plan, shoot and edit videos, listen to music, dabble in Visual Basic programming, play video games, and read the 'Crap. I enjoy spending time with my kids, and I like sports. I support all my local teams, and Arizona State athletics as well.

Age: 37
Location: Wilsonville, Oregon (about 17 miles south of Portland)
Occupation: Network Admin
Mini-bio: Have a B.A. in film that has nothing to do with my current job. Avid backpacker and fly-fisherman. PC game fanatic, particularly RPGs and FPSs. Married 6 years, no kids, no plans for having them. One large dog, two cats.

Age: 26
Location: Huntsville, AL (location of NASA's Marshall Spaceflight Center)
Occupation: Systems Engineer
Mini-bio: I play games, read, watch tv, and surf the web. Those are my only hobbies. Other people suck and so does life, and I'm currently hoping Ivan hits me in the head.

Age: 25
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation: Game Programmer
Mini-bio: I play videogames, I make videogames, I play videogames. I both love and hate my job. I'm in the first serious relationship of my life right now which is just going on one year, and loving it. I hate the game industry. I hate the internet. I drink a lot of pepsi. I listen to a lot of music and enjoy bad movies as well as good ones. I don't like you.

"I'm not asking for much; just a job that meets the minimum legal requirements set forth by my country."

Age: 26
Location: Birmingham, AL (Location of Racisim)
Occupation: Teacher/Student
Mini-Bio: Working on my Master's in Education/History, I substitute teach on occasion, and spend at least 2 nights a week teaching Aikido. Really into fitness: singletrack (mountain biking), running, lifting weights, martial arts. Nidan (2nd degree black belt) in Yoshinkan Aikido. Took up Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu as well about three months ago; really digging it. Trying to get into kayaking. Also really into drinking lots of beer and watching football. Interest in gaming has been on the decline, only purchase the most high-prfile triple-A games now. Mostly PC FPS and an odd Xbox game every now and then. Avid and voracious reader. Currently securing the house for Ivan as well.

Charles, what level of 'bad' movies do you like to watch? Are we talking B-movie, no-budget Sci-Fi? Skinemax trash? Big budget disasters?

I consider myself a bad movie buff and appreciate when flicks are so terrible they perform a 180 and end up entertaining you. I'm one of probably 769 people who went to see 'Half Past Dead' in the theaters for just this reason.

Age: 30
Location: San Diego, CA (Grew up in Somerville, MA. 'Sup Hugin?)
Occupation: Computer Programmer/Software Engineer/Whatever You Want To Call It
Mini-bio: I like videogames. Mostly Xbox and GameCube.... occassionally PC games, even though PC gaming is as dead as Gabe Newell is fat. I also like to mountain bike ('Sup Post-It?) and go rock climbing. Not married. My girlfriend of almost 8 months is unbelievably hot, a game programmer, a tribal belly dancer and muay thai expert.

Mini Bio: Joined the army at 17, went to West Germany and tended Pershing II missiles. Pretty much drank and slept my way across Europe for 3 years and then the Pershings were eliminated due to the INF Treaty. Left the army, came back to the states, bummed around, applied for the DC police department on a whim. Got hired, did that for seven years and quit. Went to work for an ISP doing tech support(long time computer geek)and quit that job soon enough. Went to work for Road Runner, quit, moved here to Wild Wonderful West Virginia so my wife could continue with school.

Had a heart attack(see what happens when you quit drinking and smoking?)on Thanksgiving in 2002. Recovered, and now I'm going for a BS in Network Engineering. Yay for starting over late in life.

Right now I get about a hundred visitors to the site a day and 30 downloads. When it first came out and was "new" on all the shareware sites it was more like a thousand visitors and 200+ downloads.

About 0.2 percent (zero point two percent, not 2 percent) of the people who download it buy it.

I'd call it a "trickle" of sales. Not exactly a huge success, but the game was more or less just a test I used to implement my engine and isn't all that extensive so I didn't expect it to do super-well sales wise.

From what I've seen of the indie game market, though, it is very hit or miss. If your game resonates with people and creates really good word of mouth you can make a small fortune on a title, but the majority of games don't make much money at all.

I've also heard that in the indie game space, the Mac market is good to get into because there are less game developers (both indie and commercial) supporting the platform, so titles don't get lost in all the noise of other releases as they do on the PC. I plan to test this out in the near future with Mac releases of Zany Blocks and "second game".

Your Mischief Entertainment site looks clean and professional, you've gotten a decent rating from Tucows (which, while not legendary, doesn't hurt), and the game is fun to play. Kudos. Best of luck with all that.

However... I'm actually surprised it got 5 cows considering the programmer art and simplicity of the game.
There's lots of games in the indie market that I see with 3 or 4 cow ratings that (based on ancedotal evidence) are selling tons more copies than Zany Blocks.

She used to play a lot of Everquest. So if any of you pick up on MMORPG chicks, maybe you'd be lucky enough to find one that is as hot as she is. (No, I didn't meet her on Everquest. We used to work together).